Amboli Quarry (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Jogeshwari

Where: Mumbai, India (19.2° N, 72.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° S, 55.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Green tuff bed of Amboli Member (Intertrappean Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Green tuff bed of Amboli, Intertrappean beds, late Maastrichtian (discussion in Singh et al., 1998).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; green tuff

• freshwater

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83308: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Sankuchemys sethnai n. gen. n. sp.
Sankuchemys sethnai n. gen. n. sp. Gaffney et al. 2003 sideneck turtle
Holotype: SDS/VPL 1125, a complete skull completely smashed flat